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"WPWP photo contest again" —An August 2022 ANI thread (en.wikipedia.org)

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Subsatellite (en.wikipedia.org)

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A subsatellite, also known as a submoon or informally a moonmoon, is a "moon of a moon" or a hypothetical natural satellite that orbits the moon of a planet.

Yamaki Pine (bonsai that survived the Hiroshima bombing) (en.wikipedia.org)

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List of shoe-throwing incidents (en.wikipedia.org)

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Comparison of commercial battery types (en.wikipedia.org)

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Blood Feast (1972 film) (en.wikipedia.org)

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Thunder sheet (en.wikipedia.org)

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Dressed herring (en.wikipedia.org)

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Barbara Jordan - Congresswoman (en.m.wikipedia.org)

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A black lesbian woman from Texas. Delivered the opening remarks calling out Nixon.

The following year, Jordan took on a national leadership role as a member of the Judiciary Committee. In the summer of 1974, as the committee considered articles of impeachment against President Nixon for crimes associated with the Watergate scandal, Jordan delivered opening remarks that shook the committee room and captivated the large television audience that had tuned in to the proceedings. “My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total,” Jordan said. “I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.” After explaining why she supported each of the five articles of impeachment against President Nixon, Jordan concluded by saying that if the Judiciary Committee did not find the evidence compelling enough, “then perhaps the eighteenth-century Constitution should be abandoned to a twentieth-century paper shredder.” Reaction to Jordan’s statement was overwhelming. Jordan recalled that people swarmed around her car after the hearings to congratulate her, and many people sent the Texas Representative letters of praise. Back home in Houston, a new billboard read: “Thank you, Barbara Jordan, for explaining the Constitution to us.”

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Joycelyn Elders (Surgeon General fired for her support of sex education and drug legalization) (en.wikipedia.org)

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Blowing a raspberry (en.wikipedia.org)

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Newton Knight - Confederate Army deserter who resisted the Confederacy during the Civil War (en.wikipedia.org)

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Prithee (en.wikipedia.org)

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Text figures (en.wikipedia.org)

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Globus cruciger (en.wikipedia.org)

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Polio hall of fame (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Polio Hall of Fame (or the Polio Wall of Fame) consists of a linear grouping of sculptured busts of fifteen scientists and two laymen who made important contributions to the knowledge and treatment of poliomyelitis.

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Monobloc (chair) (en.wikipedia.org)

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